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Journey across land and sea as National Geographic reveals amazing animal behavior and never-before-seen moments in the wild with this best-of anthology of three miniseries: Great Migrations, Untamed Americas, and Secret Life of Predators.

This amazing series showcases the strangest, freakiest, weirdest, and just plain "out of this world" behaviors in the animal kingdom. From animals that develop their babies in their mothers back skin; to strange adaptations that enable creatures to survive in extreme environments; to alien-looking body parts and camouflage, this series will cover it all. Each episode focuses on a single environment (land; sea; air).

Thunderbeast is a stunning insiders view of one of our country's most impressive wild creaturesthe American buffalo. Working over a period of eight years, Emmy-award-winning wildlife filmmaker Bob Landis documented the real dramas of bison in Yellowstone National Park. From epic battles with grizzly bears and wolves, treacherous winters to late summer mating season, Thunderbeast captures the awesome survival skills of this American icon.

Africa has a name for the most magnificent beasts on the continent. The legendary Big Five: elephant, lion, water buffalo, rhino, and leopard. But now, there are other giants that must be recognized. Half a world away, there is an ensemble of creatures born of equal power and majesty. A new Big Five: the titans of North America.

America’s Great Plains were once a vibrant grassland ecosystem, akin to the great savannahs of Africa. Here, a mere 200 years ago, Lewis and Clark stepped onto this fertile landscape and were awestruck by what they sawherds of bison, packs of wolves, grizzly bears, prairie dogs and more. Since Lewis and Clark’s time, many of these iconic prairie creatures have all but disappeared.

They're wild, unleashed, and ready for primetimeanimals captured on tape in rare, unique, and often spontaneous situations. With natural habitats shrinking and camera use expanding, it's not surprising that nature and technology have collided to produce some of the most compelling videos ever recorded. National Geographic travels the globe to get the stories behind these amazing videos and meet the experts who will deconstruct the footage and offer startling insights up-close, personal and Wild on Tape.

National Geographic Channel’s groundbreaking series Great Migrations explores the massive movement of animal populations around the planet. The project chronicles these inspirational, often harrowing journeys that are marked by unforgiving odds, and what it means to move like your life depends on it. Wildebeests, zebras, red crabs, Mali elephants, walruses, monarch butterflies, jellyfish, and whale sharks will all be on display, and the production crew traveled some 420,000 miles, filming hundreds of stories in more than 20 countries. Using new science and technology, the series reveals how animals make death-defying journeys to survive. Great Migrations is the largest undertaking of its kind in the National Geographic Society’s 120-year history. The seven-hour miniseries premieres globally in fall 2010. National Geographic’s net proceeds support vital exploration, conservation, research, and education.

In the Florida Everglades, National Geographic rides along with the staff of Billie Swamp Safariconsidered among the best wild animal wranglersfor face-to-face encounters with the more than 1,600 animals that roam wild. The Swamp Men patrol the land, relocate animals from dangerous situations, and rescue animals in needincluding crocodiles, alligators, a wild hog, a hungry black bear, a herd of ornery American bison, and an endangered Florida panther.

Journey across land and sea as National Geographic reveals amazing animals behavior and never-before-seen moments in the wild with this best-of collection of blue-chip specials. This collection set features over 9 hours of stunning cinematography and includes: Great Migrations, Untamed Americas, and Secret Life of Predators.

National Geographic examines the incredible size, speed and strength of some of the world's biggest bearsthe polar bear, brown bear and black bear. All native to North America, these formidable creatures can weigh more than 1,000 pounds, outrun an Olympic sprinter and take out its prey with a single bite or swipe of the paw. Watch as National Geographic uses science, including MRI imaging, to deconstruct these bioengineering marvels to reveal the secrets behind the largest land-dwelling carnivores on earthultimate bears.

They are giantsstretching more than 300 feet above the ground, with hidden gardens and mysterious predators thriving within their canopy. National Geographic reveals the unexplored environment of redwoods using high-tech aerial laser surveys and breathtaking imagery. Obsessive redwood climber Steve Sillett of Humboldt State University investigates their monster crowns, tallying biological material and discovering new record-breaking trees, while escaping falling branches and crashing trees in the process. Down below, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Mike Fay charts the redwood range. It is an epic yearlong exploration to size up the past and future of this primeval tree threatened in 21st century California.

Narrated by Jason Robards, this National Geographic Special takes viewers on a journey to Churchill, Manitoba, where the residents have learned to live with a unique wildlife problem. Each fall the largest, most deadly carnivore in the Arctic migrates through this isolated Canadian village on an annual northward trek. For scientists, the migration presents a unique chance to observe the bears. For residents, it is a season of apprehension.

In the harsh northern reaches of Canada's Ellesmere Island, elusive arctic wolves share their secrets with two patient observers. Shielded by their remote location and inhospitable climate, these wild animals have not yet learned to fear humans. This is the most intimate film about wolf behavior ever made.

Monster of the imagination and monarch of the wild, the great grizzly bear has long played a part in myth and legend. Despite man's combined fear of and fascination with the grizzly, the bear survives today only by consent of his one real contenderman. Travel from Alaska's Brooks Range to Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park for a fascinating portrait of this powerful intelligent and extremely aggressive creature in The Grizzlies.

Follow the largest carnivore that walks the earth, the great Kodiak bear, down ancient feeding trails, up salmon-rich riverseven into a den where a mother nurses her newborn cubs. You'll watch cubs learning to fish, bears gorging in berry-laden fields, and a remarkable scene of bears consuming a beached whale carcass. The setting is Alaska's Kodiak Island, where 4,000-foot mountains rise from hundreds of miles of jagged coastline. Today about 2,700 of these larger cousins of the well-known grizzly bear still thrive there. But change looms on the horizon. Portions of the island are open to development. Dramatic home videos of dangerous tourist/bear encounters capture the uneasy clashes of Kodiak's modern and natural worlds. Enjoy this rare look into the lives of the Giant Bears of Kodiak Island, produced and photographed by renowned wildlife filmmaker Wolfgang Bayer.

Discover the last descendants of America's first mustangs, isolated for centuries in the rural Southwest. Hit the trail with famed "horse whisperer" Pat Parelli, scientists and wranglers as they round up these living pieces of history with the hope of breeding them back from the brink of extinction. Narrated by William Shatner.

Can a picture save a species? Photographers Susan Middleton and David Littschwager are in a race against the clock to capture powerful portraits of America's most threatened creatures. Join them on this unforgettable adventure that takes them from the California Sierra to the deep South, from the woods of North Carolina to the Pacific's shores. Along the way, they encounter a camera-shy, black-footed ferret, capture the beauty of golden trout, help release a pair of red wolves back to the wild, and watch from a front-row seat as a bald eagle chick is returned to its cliff side nest. Their every picture tells a story about America's natural treasures.

Tireless worker, exceptional parent, and highly skilled builder, the beaver has earned its reputation as nature's great architect and engineer. For the beaver, dam building is an instinctive and irresistible reaction to the sound of rushing water. Surrounded by the majestic wilderness of the Rockies, a family of these industrious creatures creates and maintains a serene pond that supports an entire community of plants and animals in Rocky Mountain Beaver Pond.

Featuring the very best footage and spectacular orchestral score of National Geographic's Great Migrations event, this film brings together images from around the worldfilmed over 3 yearsresulting in a completely unique, narration-free, musical journey around the world.

Follow the journey of a rebel named Black Wolf who breaks from his pack and survives to be one of the oldest wolves in Yellowstone. He'll travel paved roads most wolves avoid at all costs as he ventures out to mate with a rival pack's females. At nearly twice the age most wolves reach, Black Wolf's unorthodox lifestyle likely means he has more pups than any wolf in Yellowstone.

Wildlife expert Casey Andersonand his best friend, a 900-pound brown bear named Brutusreturn for a second season of Expedition Wild, where Casey treks deep into America’s oldest national park and immerses himself into the daily lives of the park’s inhabitants.

This classic, beloved National Geographic special was four years in the making and this amazing film invites you to run with the pack for a wolf's-eye-view. Witness the unfolding saga of hardships and affection, losses and triumphs, and the controversy surrounding the decision to reintroduce wolves back into the heart of the West.

National Geographic embarks on a 250-mile adventure through unspoiled territory along the coast of British Columbia called the Great Bear Rain Forest. It is here that bear-hunting wolves take to the sea, grizzlies clash in titanic battles, and wild salmon are the pulsing lifeblood of an entire ecosystem. As this precious habitat faces an uncertain future, threatened by chainsaws and fish farms, a team of dedicated scientists is racing to prove that it must be protected. Forming a wilderness detective squad, these experts are searching for the rare white spirit bear and collecting clues that will decipher the secret life of the forest's elusive inhabitants.

American Cougar tells a unique story of a community of cougars whose skills are illustrated and tested as they struggle to survive in the severe landscape of the Northern Rocky Mountains. A determined team of researchers, lead by houndsman and researcher Boone Smith, mount grueling expeditions in attempts to gain precious scientific data. The story features F51, a young crafty female who makes her way through the winter, but is tested as she struggles to bring her unborn litter to a healthy birth after a cruel winter. The matron, wise F109, carries the key to crucial scientific data, but she’s a ghost, and a true master of escape.

Naturalist Casey Anderson and cat expert, Tyler Johnerson, set out to track one of North America’s most elusive ghosts: the mountain lion. Armed with specialized camera technology, Casey and Tyler hope to document "never before seen" footage of mountain lions living in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Aided by Tyler’s keen hound dogs, the same strategy employed by leading cat researchers, Tyler and Casey get hot on the heels of this formidable and cunning predatoran animal capable of jumping vertically nearly twenty feet in a single leap and taking prey much larger than its distant relation, the bobcat.

Death Valley National Park is a land of extremes. It's the driest place in the United States, the lowest place in the Western Hemisphere and, at one time, the hottest single location recorded on earth. Yet herein this seemingly inhospitable chasmlife thrives. More than 1,000 species of plant call this park home. And, several animal species found here live nowhere else on Earth.

National Geographic joins award-winning presenter and naturalist Casey Anderson on a series of breathtakingly wild adventures. From camping out on a wild island, investigating "monster" wolves and rappelling in search of elusive vampire bats; to flying in to witness a face-off between bighorn sheep and mountain lions; to venturing into the heart of darkness to experience the unknown world of Yellowstone’s grizzlies at night, Casey goes up close and personal with rare, endangered, and deadly species in the stunning natural ecosystems that they call home.

Yellowstone is America's first and foremost National Park and its majestic beauty inspires more than 3 million visitors each year. National Geographic goes beyond the tourist hotspots and travels deep inside the 2 million acre national park to reveal the backcountry wilderness few have seen. Explore some of the 300 newly discovered waterfalls and learn how wolves, back after five decades of absence from Yellowstone, are helping restore the balance in the ecosystem alongside the grizzly bear and bison. Finally, discover how the geology of Yellowstone with its giant well of molten lava underneath the surface is sometimes more dangerous than the wildlife. So serene and yet so dangerous: this powerful drama comes alive through satellite imagery and CGI animation.

Yosemite National Park is one of the most visited National Parks in the United States. National Geographic goes beyond the tourist hotspots and journeys deep into the dynamic and untamed wilderness behind 12,000 square miles of awe-inspiring natural wonders few have ever seen. Known for its steep granite cliffs, impressive waterfalls and the world's largest living treesthe Giant Sequoiasthis beautiful haven attracts vacationers all year round.